Stage-setting.



R. W. TU'LLY.

STAGE SETTING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 6, 19's.

1,21,719. Patented 0011.15, 1918.

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1 wa m- ENT r m 7 aroma) WALTON TULLY, or sienna MADRE, can-rronnm.

Be it known that I, RICHARD WALTON TULLY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident. of Sierra Madre, in:the county of r 2'; The 1obj ectiof'the new and improved'stage setting arranged to p--;port1on;24-of the hollow structure forms Los Angeles and State of.California, have invented a new. and Improved Stage- Setting, of which:the following is a' full, clear, and r.

exact description. 7

invention isto provide a enable an actor to successively' sappear in twole-dliferentfrl-es and without the audience realizing when a desiredchangeiis effected.

In order to produce the desired result, use

hedge, wall or similar device, and set trans- -*v'ersely *of the stageapproximately 'at the middle thereof, the structure having'a pas rearentrance portion leading from the back of the stage and being prov1dedwith doors opening into the passage to enable another actor to pass fromthe rear of the stage through the said entrance portion and through thedoors into the passage and onto the stage to one side of the structure.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in bothviews.

Figure 1 is a sectional plan view of the stage setting on the line 11 ofFig. 2; and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the hollow structure.

As shown in Fig. 1, the stage 10 is provided at the front with the usualfootlights 11, at the rear with a rear set piece 12, at one side withwings 13 and at the other side with a set piece 14 adjoining the rearset piece 12 and being provided with a door or a gate 15; Adjacent theside set piece 14 is arranged a kiosk or a similar device 16. A hollowstruc-' ture 20 representing a hedge, wall or similar device, is set onthe stage and extends from the rear. set piece 12 forwardly with thefront closed end 21 a distance from the footlights 11 to permit personsto pass in front of the structure 20 from one side of the stage to theother. As shown, thestructure 20 is arranged intermediate the wings 13and the Specification of Letters Patent. I

' Q Batnted ea-.-15, 1918.

Application filed February-6; 1918. 'Serial No. 215,572. r

. side set piece14, and the structure is pro- 1 vided with :a'passage 22leading from one sideof thetstage toxtheother, the passagebeingapreferably in the formof an archway, as indicated 'in-.Fig. 2. Theportion 23-of the structure 20 infront of the passage 22 is open :to.the passage-.22 and forms a hiding place for an actorpassing from oneside of the stage into the passage. 22 and into the front hiding hollow:portion 23. The rear "23.11 entrance-and its rear'end 25 opens to the"back. of the stage through-the set piece 12. The front end ofthisentrance portion 25 isfm ad'e of aiholloiw structure representing aP-LOP intoslthef passage 22 and is .provided with normally closed doors26. Thus while one-actor passes, say,- from-the frontof the 'z-stage, infull view of the audience, through the gate 15 to the rear of the setpiece 12 and into the hollow entrance portion 25 another actor hadpreviously passed through the gate 15 to the kiosk 16 and from thelatter to the passage 22 into the hiding portion 23 at the time thefirst actor reached the doors 26 and passes through the same to theother side of the stage. Thus while one actor moves into the hidingportion 23 the other actor simultaneously passes from the entranceportion 25 through the doors 26 into the passageway and onto the stagewithout the audience realizing that it is not the same person thatstarted from the kiosk 16 to pass through the passage 22 to the otherside of the stage. To the audience the first actor who passed outthrough the gate 15 has disappeared entirely while the other actor issupposed to pass from'the kiosk 16 to the passage 22 to the'other sideof the stage, but, in fact, he does not pass entirely throughthe passagebut passes into the hiding portion 23 while at the same time the claimas new and desire to secure by Letters 1'10 1. In a stage setting, ahollow structure.

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